Tahini, "DESTINY" (2023). The agender artist specializes in hand-poked Judaica tattooing as a spiritual practice. (all photos courtesy the artist) “In a world that is largely White and Christian, and ...

(Haaretz) — Hamutal Song would turn heads no matter where she lived. But walking the streets of Israel with two blue birds etched onto her chest and the words “you rock my world” in caps above them, ...

I recently spoke with young former gang members undergoing tattoo removal at Homeboy Industries, a job-training site in LA for at-risk and gang involved youth. Their tattoos serve as serious barriers ...

Jake Emen knows religious Jewish law bans tattoos, but says his experiences have an intrinsic connection to his faith. SAN DIEGO (JTA) — I’m lying on my side on the first floor of a nondescript ...

For a while now, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a Jew with a tattoo. Those thoughts resurfaced last week when I read Jodi Rudoren’s New York Times story about the “handful” of Young ...

When senior Melanie Teichner crosses the University of Minnesota campus, she is hardly unusual. Her tattoos are modest compared with the skin art many of her fellow students have. But when she walks ...